tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post1436656974742237764..comments2010-01-20T09:16:52.767-03:00Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440yogarine@gmail.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-72818934930625486222010-01-20T09:16:52.767-03:002010-01-20T09:16:52.767-03:00Video produced using AviDemux v2.5.2&#39;s PSP auto config does not work (on the PSP). Turning off 8x8 transform and changing max ref from 3 to 2 gets it working. Was able to work this out thanks to your excellent post. Thank you.gameoperanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-38386214330432869012009-11-24T13:50:09.680-03:002009-11-24T13:50:09.680-03:00@Anonymous<br />That&#39;s because the PSP doesn&#39;t support 8x8 DCT Transform or Mixed References. (Or at least didn&#39;t at the time of writing this guide.)Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-13011840624643760262009-11-24T12:26:47.564-03:002009-11-24T12:26:47.564-03:00&quot;configure the encoder for super-mega-uber-optimized encoding&quot;. You must be joking! You didn&#39;t even enabled 8x8 DCT Transform or Mixed References !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-5790371855782739662009-10-17T18:10:32.637-03:002009-10-17T18:10:32.637-03:00Thank you so much for this excellent and detailed tutorial. It&#39;s exactly what I&#39;ve looking for.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Faisal<br />Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaFaisal Yousufnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-27548325169212990642009-07-22T19:35:21.738-03:002009-07-22T19:35:21.738-03:00*pushed my chair away from desk.Stand applauding*<br /><br />Excellent Post!!!<br /><br />Anyone can get it to work. You gave explanation on how to get it to work AND look good AND to customize. Well Done.....!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-6225229152514273322009-07-05T14:35:00.987-03:002009-07-05T14:35:00.987-03:00Avidemux 2.5.0 is released!<br />Some standard settings are changed for the PSP (two pass, uneven multi, average bitrate: 1000)Finishernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-2079617234978049982009-03-03T13:11:40.511-03:002009-03-03T13:11:40.511-03:00Hi, it's me again, the guy who asked if the conversion could be faster... Just to you add to your tutorial, 640x480 is also a supported resolution =). i tested it! cya, and thanks!Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04553666122574204419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-21976156459037190562009-03-01T13:42:05.202-03:002009-03-01T13:42:05.202-03:00Like you said, creating a video folder in the root and placing it there under any name worked perfectly.<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-24886862268990258852009-03-01T13:36:20.326-03:002009-03-01T13:36:20.326-03:00MP_ROOT\100MNV01\<BR/>Is the folder I place the videos in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-75812865013884114542009-03-01T12:07:01.859-03:002009-03-01T12:07:01.859-03:00What folder on your PSP are you placing the video in? You should place it in a folder called VIDEO on the root of your PSP, _not_ in the MP_ROOT folder. (That's only for firmwares older than 2.80.)Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-14160159218205437572009-03-01T09:26:59.559-03:002009-03-01T09:26:59.559-03:00Hi!<BR/><BR/>First off I thought the guide was very informative and helpful. Although for me it didn't make it the whole way.<BR/><BR/>I had first been tinkering around in Avidemux on windows vista by myself. But, not being all that informed about all aspects of video I did fall short. First when I was trying to convert videos avidemux would crash when trying PSP h264.<BR/><BR/>With your guide the video would atleast successfully convert the file. And here is where the problem lies. Like a poster above I got "unsopprted data". I had as well renamed my file m4vXXXXX.mp4. Then I read your note about not having to rename files in that manner anymore, so I named it back. My PSP 3000 has firmware 4.20, and when the file wasn't named m4v*.mp4 then the file wouldn't show up at all when going into the vide section.<BR/><BR/>I am using Vista, not linux.<BR/>Avidemux version 2.4.4<BR/>and firmware 4.20 on my PSP.<BR/><BR/>I would be very grateful to any insight or better yet a solution to my problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-83049767943294459032009-02-20T17:11:49.344-03:002009-02-20T17:11:49.344-03:00That would work only if the video codec is plain mp4... (So if it's DivX or XviD it won't work.)<BR/>Either way you'd have to convert the audio to AAC. You can try following this tutorial, but before saving just setting the Video Codec to "Copy". Though there is very little chance it will play on the PSP.<BR/><BR/>Another option is converting the video to MP4 ASP. (It's the other option from the Auto Wizard.) In that case you don't have to bother about the advances encoding preferences, they should be okay by default.<BR/>Your video will look a lot uglier though (or be a lot bigger, depending on the bitrate)...<BR/><BR/>The cool thing about h264/AVC is that, at the maximum settings, you can cram a whole movie into a 400MB file without losing a lot of quality.Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-40579574016865399552009-02-20T17:00:29.811-03:002009-02-20T17:00:29.811-03:00about the speed... and if i just want to rum exactly the same avi in the psp?<BR/>i mean... a mp4 with same resolution and audio im mp3, like the original... can this be done? will it be faster?<BR/>can psp play the original avi without converting it? =PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-59142385071315624972009-02-20T16:30:50.277-03:002009-02-20T16:30:50.277-03:00&quot;there is no mention or apparent ability to boost the audio...is the typical audio file already proving to be satisfactory in most instances (where so many other apps are not) ??&quot;<BR/><BR/>Well in most cases the videos volume should be high enough. If it isn&#39;t then you should just check out the audio filters in Avidemux, you can increase the gain there.<BR/><BR/><BR/>&quot;The problem is, the audio starts to trail off in each movie, and I looked around the web, and I still can&#39;t find the solution to my problem D:&quot;<BR/><BR/>This could be a frame rate issue, check if the output frame rate is the same as the source movie. Also converting from certain codecs will give you trouble at times. (wmv is notorious for this) Sometimes the sync is of from the start and you can fix it by setting the time shift in the audio filters.<BR/><BR/><BR/>&quot;But i dont know if this can de done faster... it tooks me like 7-8 hours to encode one movie in 720x480 resolution...&quot;<BR/><BR/>Well there&#39;s very little you can do about that I&#39;m afraid. Converting a movie to h264/AVC at the highest quality at that resolution just takes a lot of time. (On my Pentium 4 I need to let Avidemux work the whole night for a 480x272 movie.)<BR/>If speed is really important to you, you could just reduce some quality settings so it encodes faster. (Experiment with the options in the Motion &amp; Misc and Partitions &amp; Frames tabs. Try reducing Partition decision and Motion Estimation Method.) But then obviously you&#39;ll lose video quality.<BR/>The only solution to encode faster without giving up on video quality or bitrate is to buy a better CPU (or two). ;-)Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-83851164994234162352009-02-20T16:06:50.036-03:002009-02-20T16:06:50.036-03:00Congratulations on your guide. Very very helpfull..<BR/>I just bought a TV-OUT cable for my psp slim, and i was searching everywhere for some way to convert movies to watch on tv with good resolution...<BR/>But i dont know if this can de done faster... it tooks me like 7-8 hours to encode one movie in 720x480 resolution...<BR/>The original was an avi file of 700MB with 6xx X 3xx resolution..<BR/>What i have to do to make the conversion faster? I got an asus f9s, with core 2 duo 2.0 (T7300), 4gb ram, and geforce 8400M GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-90840035823522288672009-02-16T00:57:25.002-03:002009-02-16T00:57:25.002-03:00Hey, nice guide!<BR/><BR/>It helped my convert two movies that I really wanted to watch on the go :D<BR/><BR/>The problem is, the audio starts to trail off in each movie, and I looked around the web, and I still can't find the solution to my problem D:<BR/><BR/>Can you help me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-77882019104428245572009-02-10T13:32:02.814-03:002009-02-10T13:32:02.814-03:00there is no mention or apparent ability to boost the audio...is the typical audio file already proving to be satisfactory in most instances (where so many other apps are not) ??<BR/><BR/>thx...MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-34310996589146812562009-01-24T12:17:57.802-03:002009-01-24T12:17:57.802-03:00You're welcome... ;-)Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-62201994010777220122009-01-24T01:50:59.651-03:002009-01-24T01:50:59.651-03:00Hey, Man!<BR/><BR/>You're the Light in the dark night :)<BR/><BR/>Thanks a lot!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-29956516147571334912009-01-18T21:56:04.903-03:002009-01-18T21:56:04.903-03:00Thanks so much for this. Works like a charm, and now my daughter has a full Memory Stick of Dora the Explorer for tomorrow's flight.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>BretAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-26306297296090800052009-01-07T05:48:10.700-03:002009-01-07T05:48:10.700-03:00Great guide! 1,000,000 thanks!<BR/><BR/>A side note: It seems that avidemux (my version at least) defaults to the .avi file extension. PSP appears to barf with this extension, telling you it's corrupted data. All you have to do to fix this is rename the file extension to a .mp4. (This took me 2 hours to figure out!)Eric Kinclnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-13290199660181317462008-12-23T11:45:07.842-03:002008-12-23T11:45:07.842-03:00Indeed, for 720x480 you need to use level 3.0 (which afaik is the maximum level the PSP can handle).<BR/>Anyway, it's always best to stick to 3.0, because I think it allows for some extra compression tweaks in the codec to further reduce the filesize/increase quality.Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-43244998613539586752008-12-23T10:07:39.304-03:002008-12-23T10:07:39.304-03:00Yo,<BR/><BR/>Just answered my own question there and sorted out handbrake! :) Thanks again..<BR/><BR/>for 720 x 480 it has to be AVC h264 Baseline level 3 or higher, but 3.0 does the trick. (ie. in handbrake "level=30" in the bottom of the advanced tab.)<BR/><BR/>See here for why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Levels<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I still think Avidemux did a neater job somehow and faster... so will continue using both.lowlifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-11460509181772380732008-12-23T09:49:45.755-03:002008-12-23T09:49:45.755-03:00Dude... very nice! Thank you.<BR/><BR/>I'm using the OS X port of Avidemux, interface doesn't look as flashy as ubuntu but from my small tests so far the output looks great, seems fast and is exactly what I was looking for.. was earlier trying a program called handbrake but couldn't get it to output for PSP at 720x480... it also uses ffmpeg... do you happen to know what the command line trick is for 720x480? I can get 480x272 no problems, is it something to do with the baseline option? i've tried level=13 (1.3) and level=21 (2.1) also tampered with 30 (3.0), no joy so far.<BR/><BR/>Am thinking about converting my fave movies to 720x480 so i can use them on psp and ps3... however I guess you lose the anamorphic squeeze as the PSP won't unsqueeze that at 720x480 or?<BR/><BR/>Cheers!lowlifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974459.post-85551184547249899852008-11-15T00:38:12.656-03:002008-11-15T00:38:12.656-03:00What Linux distro and version of Avidemux are you using?Yogarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879815475926786440noreply@blogger.com